Billion Years

Famous quotes containing the words billion years, billion and/or years:

    “Imagine spending four billion years stocking the oceans with seafood, filling the ground with fossil fuels, and drilling the bees in honey production—only to produce a race of bed-wetters!”
    —Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)

    “Night’s brittle song, silver-thin
    Shatters into a billion fragments
    Of quiet shadows
    At the blaring jazz
    Of a morning sun.”
    —Frank Marshall Davis (b. 1905)

    “I have started to say
    “A quarter of a century”
    Or “thirty years back”
    About my own life.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)